April 23, 2021
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With its expanses of golden tussocks, turquoise glacial lakes, wide braided rivers, and gleaming snow-capped peaks, New Zealand’s high country is the well-known jewel in the crown of our landscapes. It’s also being increasingly recognised how crucial these dryland landscapes and glacial outwash plains are for our unique plants and animals. There’s the critically-endangered grand skink, which lives among the rocky tors of Otago. The enormous robust grasshopper is only known to live in three catchments of the Mackenzie Basin.
